Aloysius College Educational Brief

Educational Vision and Brief for Co-education in North Melbourne ST ALOYSIUS COLLEGE 202 3-2027

From 2023 St Aloysius College has committed, with the backing and support of Mercy Education Limited and the Institute of Sisters of Mercy Australia and Papua New Guinea, to becoming a co-education provider supporting the education of both Girls and Boys as the community in the North Melbourne environment continues to grow at a rapid rate.

To achieve this goal the College has identified a need for significant investment in providing fac ilities to accommodate for a Co-Educational setting

Educational Brief

The quality of a school building depends on known design criteria and professional knowledge and as such, at St Aloysius College we aim that our classrooms reflect and support new ways of sharing and collaborating and are places where digital literacy flourishes. They are centres of industry, both challenging and stimulating, with real time access and deployment of global information resources, encouraging the broadening of knowledg e, thinking, communication and collaboration.

Well-designed school facilities have spaces for learning, discovering, sharing and interaction. This means creating settings for more student-centred approaches to learning, and ones in which relationships bet ween students, and between students and teachers can be fostered. It is essential that our school facilities enable the learning and teaching outcomes required of a modern curriculum, and that they are agile and flexible enough to support a range of pedago gical modes and learning styles. School facilities that are engaging, distinctive and contextually responsive can build a sense of pride and ownership among students, teachers, and the broader community, and this is our vision to deliver

Our Vision – Our Future

Our Vision and future direction is aligned with the education framework (“Horizons of Hope”) for the Archdiocese of Melbourne and the Learning and Teaching framework from the OECD 2030.

Our learning and wellbeing programs will continue to evolve according to these themes, ensuring that our Catholic Identity and Mercy Values underpin all our actions and strategic intents.

Our Future Focus

• Our identity, rich history and culture will continue to be lived and celebrated

• Our College will continue to be a welcoming environment to all within our community and it will be a place to work and learn and to create and collaborate

• We will continue to provide equitable access and opportunity for all, with a commitment to those most in need within our community

• We will continue our commitment to achieving the highest standards possible based on reflective practice, using data, research and evidence to ensure progress and growth in student outcomes

Educational Vision and Brief for Co-education in North Melbourne

Vision outcomes

• STEM – Engineering focus and Visual Arts linked with presentation areas

• Open Learning Spaces – virtual learning hubs

• Collaborative learning spaces

• Upgrade for Food Tech to incorporate Hospitality

• Cafeteria options

• Material Design Centre (Plastics / Textiles) conception to design to protype

• Hall to accommodate up 750

• Performing Theatre with raked seating

• Music Recording area and Music Studios

• Enough GLPA areas to accommodate 7 streams per year level

• Locker Spaces

• Toilet and Change facilities to meet up to 1000 students

• Full size BB, netball indoor courts, weights conditioning

• Lift access/Disabled access throughout site

• Staff and Student meeting rooms (conferencing rooms)

• Staff room upgrades

• Science Upgrades – open to each other and can accommodate experiments and theory in separate areas

• Staff workstations/offices around the College

• Open space for recreation including activities such as BB hoops and down ball or four square

• Shaded areas

• Green environmental ly friendly

• Air-con pollutants compliant

Our goals to:

- Provide facilities which foster the support and engagement of students and the College community

- Ensuring this development supports ‘best practice’ and incorporates contemporary and international trends in the delivery of education

- To provide facilities that promote and enable students to be creative, self -directed, critical thinkers, who cherish curiosity, are inspired to learn, whose natural inquisitiveness is protected and who strive for excellence in their learning

- Increasing the capacity of the College to promote student numbers

- Providing all staff with improved work areas

- Improving the quality of learning environments to support educational outcomes

- Ensuring mitigation of any potential WHS risks and providing facilities that are environmentally friendly

To achieve this:

• We will continue to honour the sacred dignity of each person, believing that everyone can experience success and be supported to see their lives as being shaped by the God who is at work in all of creation

• Our College will continue to embrace diversity and inclusiveness

• Our teachers will personalise the learning for their students, engaging them to learn purposefully and successfully and challenging them to strive for excellence.

• Our students will experience classroom and education programs that are innovative, stimulating and inclusive.

• We will continue to upskill o ur teachers n using instructional teaching together with collaboration research, problem-solving and self-directed learning that develops students’ critical thinking, self-awareness and responsibility for their own learning.